Forbidden-to-work laws

Getting union workers to beat up other workers and deny them jobs was one of their tactics. Another was the tactic of enacting forbidden-to-work laws (fraudulently labeled “minimum wage laws”) in which workers with low labor value were forbidden from making employment contracts. Later they actually paid people to remain unemployed. and imposed special punishments on employers (such as health insurance for older workers).

All the while selling voters on the idea they are pro-labor. As Katz says: “Almost everything you have been taught is a lie.”